Re: Patch "asm-generic/bitops/lock.h: Rewrite using atomic_fetch_" causes kernel crash

[Vineet Gupta]

On 08/30/2018 01:45 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>
>> Indeed this is the mother of all issues, I tried and system is clearly hosed with
>> and works after.
>> What's amazing is the commit 4aef66c8ae9 which introduced it is from 2016 ;-)
>> Back then we had a retry branch with backoff stuff which I'd reverted for new
>> cores and the merge conflict somehow missed it.
>>
>> @PeterZ I'll create a patch with you as author ? do I need any formal sign offs,
>> acks etc ?
> Well, Will spotted it, give authorship to him, you have my ack per the
> above.

Oops, sorry for the mixup. I have him as author now and pushed to ARC for-curr
(will trickle into linux-next eventually).

> FWIW, also ACK on Will's patch to switch you over to asm-generic bitops
> entirely.

Yeah I'll get it to that and your's after the clear_bit_lock stuff - sorry for
hijacking this thread to that topic now

-Vineet